Sarah Idan is a former Miss Iraq who is now an American citizen. She is running for Congress from the 30th Congressional District in California, hoping to replace Adam Schiff, who is running for Senator. She is more than just a pretty face.
When she announced in March that she would be running for Congress, she had a few exchanges on Twitter with Ilhan Omar, responding to one of Omar’s tweets with this:
“I don’t stand for your anti-American, antisemitic, Muslim Brotherhood agenda, using this democracy to further your…Islamic socialism goals of dividing and weakening our country.”
And in announcing her candidacy for Congress, she said: “I would just be the opposite of Ilhan Omar. I’m a Democrat and liberal, but I don’t think like her – I don’t hate this country.”
Given her allure, both mental and physical, she promises to be an articulate and mediagenic opponent of “The Squad”; it’s not hard to imagine that, whether she wins or loses, she will be given massive media coverage, which she could put to good use by educating the American public on Islam, terror groups, and the need to defend Israel’s right, and support its fight, to exist against those who would, if they could, obliterate the Jewish state. Of course, we don’t know whom she will be facing in the Democratic primary, it might be someone even more impressive. Nor do we know what Republican might be running against her.
More on Sarah Idan can be found here: “‘This was not about freeing Palestine’: Former Miss Iraq tours decimated southern towns,” Times of Israel, December 30, 2023:
Sarah Idan, a former Miss Iraq and now a candidate in the 2024 US Congressional elections, toured decimated Israeli communities along the Gaza border this week, in a show of solidarity with the Jewish state similar to those that saw her Iraqi citizenship revoked in 2019.
In a Channel 12 interview, Idan, who is running to represent California’s 30th Congressional district, explained she was compelled to show the “October 7-deniers” among her tens of thousands of social media followers — largely Iraqis — the truth of what took place in Israel on October 7, when some 3,000 Hamas terrorists invaded and massacred some 1,200 people, taking another 240 hostages to Gaza.
She said it makes her sick to her stomach to hear students on US campuses say the Hamas attack was an act of self-defense.
“I want them to see the horror that caused the war on Gaza. The world is shouting ‘Free Palestine’ and it was never about freeing Palestine. This is not about freeing Palestine — killing innocent families and burning them alive. This is not freeing Palestine, this is terrorism,” she told Channel 12 on Tuesday [Dec. 26].
Idan has prior experience with jihadists. In 2008, at age 18, Idan, having taught herself English while a refugee in Syria from the war in Iraq, offered her services as a translator to US forces in Iraq. During her military service, as she recounted in a recent X post, she aided US troops in fighting Hamas of Iraq, an extremist group separate from the Palestinian terror organization.
“So us, the US military, and the Iraqi military were fighting [Iraqi] Hamas together. Tell me, if Hamas were trying to free Iraq, why were they trying to hinder the process of Iraqis establishing their own government and becoming independent?” she said on X. In Israel, she reiterated for Channel 12, “Here it’s exactly the same war, the same enemies.”…
Running as a Democrat, Idan intends to be “the anti-squad,” she told Channel 12, referring to the group of hard-left Democrat progressives that have staked out positions highly critical of Israel, among them Reps. Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ayanna Pressley and Ilhan Omar.
“It’s not just about Israel. My Iraq is already lost. I lost my Iraq to the Iranian regime and to the radical Islamists and I could never live there. So the US is my only home and I need to protect my home and sadly, The Squad, when it comes to the Middle East, I feel like they have no experience, they’re being told what to say.”…
I beg to differ with Sarah Idan here. I don’t think the members of The Squad are being told what to say. They need no instruction from others on expressing their anti-Israel animus that frequently sinks into rank antisemitism. Whether it is the Muslim beliefs of Tlaib and Omar, or the anti-Israel sentiments that are now an indissoluble part of the far-left package (as with Ocasio-Cortez), the members of the Squad arrive at the same conclusion: “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free.” And they share an abiding hatred of what they attack as the “colonial-settler-apartheid-genocidal state” of Israel.
Barbara says
I hope she beats Schiff. One less socialist liberal goes in the right direction.
She speaks from first hand experience. That she helped the US forces says a lot about her willingness to fight.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Schiff is going to run for the Senate Idan is running for the Congressional seat that Schhiff will be vacating.
ed says
taqiyya
No moslem in the world can be trusted
SJ says
I agree. No Islam can be trusted. They’re liars.
Big Dude says
Gd bless her, and give her victory
She is precisely the type of person who makes this a better world
Gd bless you Sarah…and give you victory so that the true goodness of your soul can be put to the service of freedom and goodness
I bless you in the name of my sainted ancestors
Bless you Sarah and thank you for your bravery and nobility
somehistory says
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/woke-boston-city-councilor-is-ordered-to-retake-oath-of-office-after-refusing-to-say-the-words-and-raise-her-right-hand-during-swearing-in-ceremony/ar-AA1mxrzZ?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6f686c5110d24f0eb3ea8c1cdc0c5b04&ei=16
“In a statement to her social media on Thursday, Anderson said she had been internalizing the oath to herself during the video”
she is saying she has fought to be where she is in the “face of racism” and the fake “phobia.”
Hoi Polloi says
That one’s something else. She’s still refusing.
And Happy New Year, somehistory!
somehistory says
Thank you, HP, and a happy one to you too.
abu taleb says
She is a Democrat and liberal, so don’t expect much from her.
DaBoogster says
She might be worse that Schiff if she is “lying” as Moslims are required to do to non-Moslims. Mos Democrats lie for power as well, one of the reasons why Democrats and Moslims have so many aligned goals. Their ideas are so good they must be mandatory so in their minds, we all must submit.
Graham says
Being a democrat will be a thorn in the side of those who hate America/white America and the American constitution within their own democratic party. Just one thing aside “Who opened the gate for the ‘insurrectionists” to enter the Capitol Hill grounds-this is the reason why President Trump should not be indicted with trumped up charges and selective accusation by the biased prosecutors. lf the Lord God so chooses to do so Trump shall be the next President in 2024 and no one can resist that happening.
OLD GUY says
Lets hope if she dose get elected she is what she says she is, a woman who loves America.
From The Other Side of Town says
Another sleeper?
James Lincoln says
If Sarah Idan becomes an ex-muslim, only then will I listen to her.
Tony says
Yeah, yeah, yeah sure. You “hate” The Squad, but your deception is obvious. You’re using your so-called animus of fellow Muslim Ilhan Omar to become yet one more Muslim person of authority in America. You’re hoping that your so-called hatred of the P.O.S. named Ilhan Omar, will be more than enough to get Americans to vote for you. That’s the game folks. YOU ARE BEING PLAYED!!!! No person of Islam can (OR SHOULD) EVER be trusted. To potential voters in her district; WAKE UP FOLKS. YOU ARE BEING DECEIVED AND ARE ABOUT TO BECOME A “USEFUL IDIOT”. DON’T FALL PREY TO THIS EGREGIOUS MANIPULATION!.
Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says
Like most people I meet, I’ll trust her until which time she proves unworthy of my trust. She is worth the risk considering how her background cannot be played against her in the divisive game of identity politics.
MLK: RIP.